Powder-puff.



a, H. KARMEN.

PUWDER PUFF.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I6, 1913y l ,QQQIQ Patented Apr. 1,1919.

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BERNARD HENRY KARIVEN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

POWDERPUFF.

To all whom t mayrconcem I Be it known thatI, BERNARD HENRY KAR- MEN, acitizen of the United States, and a 'y resident of the city of New York,borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have'invented a new and Improved VPowder-Puff, of` which the following is aY full, clear, and exact description.

lthe body of the puff theribbon This invention relates to powder pu's,Land it has for its 'generalobjects to improveA the construction ofowder puffs of'that type disclosed in United States LettersPatent`1,27O,7 39, granted to me on the 25th-day of June, 1918, theimprovement residing particularly inthe means forl securing1 t at mayform the handle of the puf or the attaching means when a ring is used asa handle.

A more speciic object of the invention is the employment of a suitablemember, such as a ring', disk or plate kof cardboard or other suitablematerial which lies within the upper shell or section of the powderpubody and between which and the said shell the ribbon is clamped, withthe ends of the ribbon turned back under the edges ofy the member andheld by the upsettin of the Viange of that section of the body w ichcarries the pile cloth,`thus doin away with the necessity of gluing thehan le-forming ribbon, according to the method shown in the LettersPatent hereinbefore referred to.

With such and other objects in view, the. invention comprises variousnovel features of construction and arrangement of -parts which will beset forth with particularity in the following description and claimsappended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of theinvention and wherein similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views,

Figure 1 1s a perspective' view of thepowder puff Fig. 2 is an enlargedvertical section taken.

centrally thereof;

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view on a reduced scale and showing the backcloth piece and the ribbon before they are turned in, and

with the ribbon-holding disk in position;

Fig. 4: isa, plan view of the ribbon-holding l disk,

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Patenten apr. i, raie.

'l Application filed October 16, 1918. Serial 11o. 258,354.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View ofvanother form of ribbon-holding member;and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a'modified form of handle.

Referringto the drawing, 1 designates the pile cloth orface of thepowder pu, 2 the. vcloth baclopiece, 3 the handle or grip, 4 yand 5 themetal sections that form the body of the cup-shaped upper section orshell 4 and within the flange 8 of the section 5, which latter is in theform4 of a rino' with. an opening 9 of considerable size. rhe aemblingof the parts and .the upsetting of the two sections may be done by meansof special dies. Before the'two parts of the body are pressed togetherand upset the ribbon that forms the fhandle 3 is looped through anopening 10 of the section 4, and the ends 11 of the ribbon lie withintlhe section 4 and between the lat-- ter and the disk or plate 6, whichmay be `made of cardboard or other material suitable vfor the purpose;The extremities12 of the ribbon are turned backunder the disk,"as isalso the marginal portion of the backy cloth piece 2. While thus held`the section 4 with the clothpiece, ribbon and disk in place and thesection 5 with the pile cloth in place are brought together andinterlocked by the dies. The dies cause thenternal flange 13 of thesection 5 to be pressed upwardly into conical form, whereby the ends 12of the ribbon, together with the edges -of the cloth pieces 1 and 2, areclamped against the disk 6, whereby the partsare firmly held in place.This method of assembling does away with the necessity of gluing theends of the handleforming ribbon and the parts can be assembled quickly,economically and satisfactorily.

The handle may be in the form of a ring 15V and ribbon 16, as shown inFig. 6, if desired.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation willbe readily understood by those skilled in the art to whichthe inventionappertains, and while 'I have described the principle of operation',together with the article which I now consider to be the best embodimentthereof, I desire to have it understood that the article shown is merelyillustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fallWithin the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

l. A powder puff comprising a body formed ol two sections compressedtogether in interlocking relation, a handle including a ribbon loopedthrough one of the sections and. having its ends disposed Within thebody of the powder pud, and a disk member in the seid body and underWhich the extremities of theribbon are turned, the said sections havingportions clamping the ribbon and disk rmly together.

A powder pu including a body, a member in the body, and a ribbon in theform of a loop extending out of the body and having its ends turned backover the edge of the member, said body having cooperating portions iorclamping the ends of the ribbon against the member.

moeder 3. A powder pull including a body formed ol a pair or' sectionscompressed together in interlocking` relation, a disk in the body, and asupporting' member having a portion eittending out of the body acting asa handle and a Aportion within the body, said latter portion beingclamped into frictional-holding relation with said disk by thecompression or' the sections of the body.

4. A powder putt1 comprising two metal sections having,` peripheralflanges, a back cloth piece and a pile cloth piece having their marginalportions clamped between the flanges, and the back cloth piece `beingnstretched over one section and the pile cloth piece being stretched overthe other sections, the latter section being formed with an internalliange compressed inwardly toward the other section, a member disposedbetween the sections, and a handle device including a flexible element,the ends of Which are turned back under the member sind clamped againstthe same by the last-mentioned flange.

BERNARD HENRY KARMEN,

